id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 8239 gimp-2.8.18 FTBFS if gtk-doc not present. ken@… ken@… "With gimp-2.8.18, if gtk-doc is not present then autoreconf fails (cc 1) with messages like {{{ gtk-doc.make:7: error: GTK_DOC_USE_LIBTOOL does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL }}} The book does not actually say that autoreconf ends with a zero condition code, so I tried to continue. 'make' ended in error - {{{ Making all in libgimpbase make[3]: Entering directory '/scratch/working/gimp-2.8.18/devel-docs/libgimpbase' Makefile:934: *** missing separator. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory '/scratch/working/gimp-2.8.18/devel-docs/libgimpbase' make[2]: *** [Makefile:607: all-recursive] Error 1 }}} That is the first @echo in the hunk {{{ # # Require gtk-doc when making dist # @HAVE_GTK_DOC_TRUE@dist-check-gtkdoc: docs @HAVE_GTK_DOC_FALSE@dist-check-gtkdoc: @HAVE_GTK_DOC_FALSE@ @echo ""*** gtk-doc is needed to run 'make dist'. ***"" @HAVE_GTK_DOC_FALSE@ @echo ""*** gtk-doc was not found when 'configure' ran. ***"" @HAVE_GTK_DOC_FALSE@ @echo ""*** please install gtk-doc and rerun 'configure'. ***"" @HAVE_GTK_DOC_FALSE@ @false }}} My fix is to run the sed on configure itself, not configure.ac, and omit the autoreconf invocation. " defect closed high 7.10 BOOK SVN normal fixed